Enhelsowe

Enhelsowe
Енгельсове
	Enhelsowe
Basic data
Oblast :	Luhansk Oblast
Rajon :	Krasnodon urban district
Height :	164 m
Area :	4 km²
Residents :	1,023 (2011)
Population density :	256 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	94433
Area code :	+380 6435
Geographic location :	48 ° 18 '  N , 39 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '59 "  N , 39 ° 36' 46"  E
KOATUU :	4411447400
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement
Mayor :	Natalija Trelis
Address:	вул. К. Маркса 13 94433 смт. Енгельсове
Statistical information
Enhelsowe

Enhelsowe (Ukrainian Енгельсове - Ukrainian officially since May 12, 2016 Buran / Буран ; Russian Энгельсово / Engelsowo ) is an urban-type settlement in the east of the Ukrainian Luhansk Oblast with about 1000 inhabitants.

Administratively, the place belongs to the municipality of the city of Krasnodon, which lies nine kilometers to the east, and forms its own settlement council, which also includes the urban-type Hirne and the Shyroke (Широке) settlement ; the oblast capital Luhansk is 35 kilometers northwest of the place.

Enhelsowe was founded in 1923, was initially called Schachta imeni Enhelsa (шахта ім. Енгельса - "Shaft called Engels" based on the German revolutionary Friedrich Engels ) and was elevated to an urban-type settlement in 1938, since 1958 the place bears its current name. Since the summer of 2014, the town has been occupied by separatists from the Lugansk People's Republic during the war in Ukraine .

Web links

• Location information (Ukrainian)
• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 05.12.2016 № 1351-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів на тимчасово окупованих територіях Донецької та Луганської областей